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Year 4 Writing Planner

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Year 4 Writing Planner

Plan, draft and improve a short story about a surprising discovery at a local beach. Invent your own details. Write in complete sentences and reread your work as you go.

Plan your story

Decide what kind of story you will write, who it is for and what happens.

1.What is the purpose of your story, and who might enjoy reading it?

2.Choose a main character, a beach setting and one interesting thing the character discovers. Give each a detail.

3.Plan the beginning, middle and ending. What happens first, what problem or surprise follows, and how does the story finish?

4.Write one sentence that helps your reader imagine the beach using a sound, a smell or a feeling.

Draft and build your story

Use your plan to write a first draft. Then try a few craft choices to make it engaging.

5.Draft the opening of your story. Introduce the character and setting, and give the reader a reason to keep reading.

6.Write a line of dialogue that shows how your character feels when the surprise is discovered. Include speech marks.

7.Choose the strongest word to complete this sentence: “The bottle was ___ beneath the sand.”

buried
nice
thing
went

8.Improve this sentence by adding a precise verb or a describing detail: “The waves came onto the beach.”

Revise and edit

Make your story clearer for your reader, then check the writing carefully.

9.True or false: Revising means checking whether the ideas and events are clear and in an order that makes sense.

TrueFalse

10.Edit this sentence by fixing its capital letters and punctuation: “mia opened the bottle and read the note”

11.Reread your draft. Name one change you could make to improve the story and explain how it would help your reader.

12.Before sharing your story, which checks will help make it ready for a reader? Select all that apply.

Check that sentences begin with capital letters and end with punctuation.
Check that events are in an order that makes sense.
Replace any repeated words with more interesting choices.
Leave spelling and punctuation unchecked.

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